Medics say: female Iranian protesters shot in face, genitals and breasts

Medical personnel in Iran treating protesters were disturbed to see the different types of injuries that were inflicted upon women than were inflicted on men. Female protesters were often shot in their faces, breasts and genitals as if these areas were targeted.

Doctors and nurses covertly treated the wounded demonstrators stemming from the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, 22. She was taken in custody for not wearing a head covering [hijab] properly and thereby causing Iranian men to have lustful thoughts and dreams, and then allowing them to beat their wives for no apparent reason other than they could with impunity.

One doctor from the Isfahan province, home of nuclear weapons research, speaking to the Guardian on condition of anonymity to avoid sudden death syndrome said he believed the authorities “wanted to destroy the beauty of these women.”

And apparently their reproductive capacity.

So far, over 475 people have been killed in the unrest and more than 18,000 have been detained by government forces as part of a brutal crackdown on the popular movement, which was spearheaded by women and girls fed up with the ayatollahs’ draconian rule.

Iranian authorities reportedly have been firing on demonstrators at close range with birdshot pellets made of metal or plastic. Doctors said shots to the eyes were particularly common because Iranians who shoot at unarmed Iranian women cannot suck enough.

The doctor from Isfahan told about his experience treating a young woman who was struck in her crotch area with a dozen pellets, two of which had lodged inside her genitals. 

This seems almost as bad as the US Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd, who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed woman, during the January 6th demonstration in our own country.

“Two pellets were a challenge, because they were wedged in between her urethra and vaginal opening,” he said, adding that the state of the patient left him anguished because she “could have been my daughter.”

Ashli Babbitt's wound was in her neck.

Another doctor from the city of Karaj suggested that the so-called security forces “shoot at the faces and private body parts of women because they have an inferiority complex and they want to get rid of their sexual complexes by hurting these young people.”

This sounds more accurate.

Mohsen Shekari

On Thursday, Iran carried out the first execution stemming from the protests by hanging Mohsen Shekari and was seeking the death penalty against 21 others.

The title "Religion of Peace" is an oxymoron.

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